Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson this autumn with a collection of her finest, darkest short stories, revealing the queen of American gothic at her mesmerising best. There\"s something nasty in suburbia....

From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a treasure trove of deliciously dark and funny stories, essays, lectures, letters and drawings....

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world\"s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith....

A remarkable collection of dark, funny and haunting short stories from the inimitable author of \"The Lottery\"....

Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro. First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson\"s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr....

Перед вами лучшая история с привидениями, созданная в ХХ веке: захватывающий сюжет, тонкий психологический взгляд автора и насыщенная атмосфера готического романа. Исследователь паранормальных явлений доктор Монтегю вместе с несколькими добровольцами поселяется в особняке, затерянном среди холмов....

Five years ago, a toxic microplastics storm killed most of the population. Now Katie, a young mother, must forage and hunt the few surviving animals for meat as she attempts to feed her little boy, Harry. At a time when stepping outside could kill you, Harry is kept indoors at all costs, never venturing beyond the door to their one-bedroom flat....

What secrets are hidden within the walls of a desolate farmhouse in a forgotten corner of Sweden? Early spring has its icy grip on Odesmark, a small village in northernmost Sweden, abandoned by many of its inhabitants. But Liv Bjornlund never left. She lives in a derelict house together with her teenage son, Simon, and her ageing father, Vidar....

Josephine Williams is definitely a leader - and her teachers know it! What other eleven-year-old is desperate for MORE schoolwork? Looking for more challenging tasks, Josie enlists her friends Wesley and Margot into her very own Scout troop, the Copseys, named after the street they all live on....

A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery \"Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children\" As well as being a master of the macabre, Shirley Jackson was also a pitch-perfect chronicler of everyday family life....

\" \\\"Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that\"s missing...\\\" \" Malice, paranoia and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life in these chilling miniature masterworks of unease....

Reminiscent of her classic story \"The Lottery\", Jackson\"s disturbing and darkly funny first novel exposes the underside of American suburban life....

Shirley Jackson\"s Hangsaman is a story of lurking disquiet and haunting disorientation, inspired by the real-life, unsolved disappearance of a female college student. Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her place in the world....

In The Sundial Shirley Jackson, author of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, blends family politics and apocalyptic terror to create a disturbing world of sinister relations and the macabre....

Elizabeth Richmond is almost too quiet to be believed, with no friends, no parents, and a job that leaves her strangely unnoticed. But soon she starts to behave in ways she can neither control nor understand, to the increasing horror of her doctor, and the humiliation of her self-centred aunt....